Another retired one is 427,which is stored in TSA compound behind Morphettville Depot along with lots of MAN 11.190's and a mixture of rigid and Artic Mercedes most of which are fit for the wreckers yard.

Diesel_MAN wrote:Buses have returned to service after being parked in that spot. 432 was there for months, yet for some unknown reason came back to active service seemingly without any maintenance whatsoever.

How do you know it had no maintenance?

Time to get bus priority and tram priority through the city and suburbs.Time to police bus lanes which are used by arrogant car drivers.Time to work for better timetables and better connections.

It's not that it would have had absolutely nothing done to it. However, one would think this is the case for at least three reasons:

It bangs into third gear. It has a mechanical fault which causes a high pitch noise at over 50kph, and it's speedo is possibly faulty (I've heard get up to well over 60kph in a 60 zone twice now in less than a month).

If it was at Morphettville or another depot which cares a bit more about the condition of it's fleet, then it wouldn't be like this.

TA3001 wrote:It's not that it would have had absolutely nothing done to it. However, one would think this is the case for at least three reasons:

It bangs into third gear. It has a mechanical fault which causes a high pitch noise at over 50kph, and it's speedo is possibly faulty (I've heard get up to well over 60kph in a 60 zone twice now in less than a month).

Plus, it sounded and felt like it was in the same condition both before and after the last time it returned to service.

While we're on the subject of 432, I've noticed that 444 sounds very similar to it, except it doesn't jolt violently when shifting into third and doesn't sound terrible at roughly 55 kph. 444 does make a high pitched noise in third at roughly 55 kph, but it's not as bad as 432 and only seems to occur if the driver is sitting on 55 kph.

Lt. Commander Data wrote:Well either 859 is still in service, or it's replacement has its BCU in it. According to Transit Times it's doing a 190 at the moment.

I found it on TransitTimes yesterday morning too. I also saw it again that afternoon.

TA3001 wrote:859 and 898 are supposedly both still on the road from what I've heard.

In addition to TransitTimes observations, I physically saw 859 yesterday and today. I haven't seen 898 recently, but that one shows up less often in my observations than other SL202s do. I doubt that it's been retired either way.

TA3001 wrote:Yet she's still getting around in good condition, albeit not at 100kph.

Why does it have to perform at 100km/h? I can't think of any times it would need to travel at 100km/h? Repositioning at Glen Osmond will probably see the bus only do 60-80km/h going uphill and a max. of 60km/h coming downhill.

Time to get bus priority and tram priority through the city and suburbs.Time to police bus lanes which are used by arrogant car drivers.Time to work for better timetables and better connections.